Prep your palate: take a small sip, swish it then spit it out.

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Booktype can format for a series of standard book sizes, then spit out several file types, including pdf, epub, mobi, odt and html files.

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M. 1400 Series computer, which then spit out your matches: five blue cards, if you were a woman, or five pink ones, if you were a man.

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"We effectively use it to rinse our mouth three times and then spit out, " explained Daniel Limonadi, the Curiosity surface sampling phase lead at the US space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

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Essentially, it is made up of various forms you must fill out in order to populate a database that would then spit back the information at you, in a slightly more organized or graphical way.

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Traditional porchetta involves a whole pig that's been gutted and boned, stuffed with its own offal, seasoned with a heady mix of wild fennel, herbs and garlic, neatly trussed and then slowly spit-roasted over an open fire.

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And then we have the tenor, who depicts the swan on a spit.

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Consumers place their orders on the Web, then get a kit in the mail and return it with a cheek swab or spit sample for analysis.

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